From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 09:21:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D3716A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7503E43D39 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 355E43D7; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:21:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:21:49 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040305172149.GU15679@seekingfire.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: sparc classic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:21:51 -0000 On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? > I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. No, there isn't. Sparc64 works wonderfully, however. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html I suspect that you'll end up running NetBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux variant on that box. I looked into it a while back because I like old Sun gear, but I like having a homogenous environment even more :-) -T -- Special knowledge can be a terrible disadvantage if it leads you too far along a path that you cannot explain anymore. - Mentat Admonition